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Sound Traveling Over Water

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 22, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 3.

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Sound Traveling Over Water

It happened once on board a ship sailing along the coast of Brazil, one hundred miles from land, that the persons walking on deck when passing a particular spot heard most distinctly the sound of bells, varying as in human rejoicing. All on board listened and were convinced. Some months afterwards it was ascertained that at the time of observation the bells of St. Salvador, on the Brazilian coast, had been ringing on the occasion of a festival. The sound, therefore, favored by a gentle wind, had traveled over one hundred miles of smooth water, and striking the wind-spread sail of a ship, rendered concave by a gentle breeze, had been brought to a focus and rendered perceptible.